I knew there was a fortune in it.

Many a sensible man has since told me that if I could have secured the sole right for making them for ten years, I could easily have made a million of dollars.

The more I looked at this new plan, the better it appeared.
My business took me to South Carolina before I could return home.

I had now enough to think of day and night; this one day brass clock was constantly on my mind; I was drawing plans and contriving how they could be made best.

I traveled most of the way from Richmond by stage.
Arriving at Augusta, Geo., I called on the Connecticut men who were finishing wood clocks for that market, and told Mr.Dyer the head man, that I had got up, or could get up something when I got home that would run out all the wood clocks in the country, Thomas's and all; he laughed at me quite heartily.